Adventure in the world of Everglow, nestled in delicate balance between the elemental planes. It is a world of magic and mystery, where the fey are in control and the humanoid races are secondary. Foremost of the fey are Ponykind, who rallied behind their Queen to form the greatest empire Everglow had ever seen.

We've brought ponies, griffons, felines, and other strange creatures to life in a world all of their own, where they are the primary PCs. Don't want to run a game all about ponies? That's alright! Use our post-empire suggestions to add ponies to any other existing world. Many spells, archetypes, and bloodlines are also usable by non ponies or other settings.

Is this e5? also if I already bought it can I download the new versions?

David SSeptember 16, 2016 2:12 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

This is Pathfinder. It will remain Pathfinder. I'm working on the 5th edition one. You can pre-order that one if you want. https://ponyfinder-dawn-of-the-fifth-age.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Tim PMay 24, 2016 1:24 pm UTC

PURCHASER

So, I'm (quite literally) late to the game, and the Ponyfinder website looks somewhat broken. What will I need to try this out? I'm assuming the Ponyfinder - Campaign Setting book and a Pathfinder Core Rule book, is that correct?

David SMay 24, 2016 1:47 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Correct! That's all you need. The website should be operational, and our forum is full of adventurers, did a link not work?

Tim PMay 25, 2016 2:17 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Thanks! The navigation links all go to the "forum" subdomain, e. g. "Blog" links to http://forum.ponyfinder.net/wordpress/blog/ instead of http://ponyfinder.net/wordpress/blog/ and so forth. I could eventually get to the right pages by manually editing out "forum" from the url, but I guess this is not the way it's supposed to work. ^^ (Haven't yet checked out the forum, but will do that later.)

Steve NOctober 06, 2015 2:39 am UTC

I, too, would like to see this brought forth to Savage Worlds. I have a group ready to go but learning Pathfinder is more than I wish to tackle right now.
I do hope you'll consider it!

SteveN

Maximilian KFebruary 21, 2015 3:05 am UTC

I wonder if pony paladins still get the mount and if yes, what kind of mount do they get? A bigger pony?

David SFebruary 21, 2015 3:13 am UTC

PUBLISHER

A horse, just like a human. They can ride them too.

Maximilian KFebruary 21, 2015 4:20 am UTC

This makes no sense and is quite ridiculous. It clearly shows the spirit of the show in this but undermines the more thoughtful nature of the campaign setting. It is no deal breaker but an immersion breaker. On the other hand, I don't think anyone would try to make a serious campaign with a setting like this. For a fun one shot, maybe. But for that it is a little bit too expensive. A demo adventure would be a nice step to help people who are unsure about buying the game.

David SFebruary 21, 2015 4:25 am UTC

PUBLISHER

We have a free adventure, Tower of Misery, and free characters, Champions of Everglow.

If you don't like ponies riding horses, take the other option? Mechanically there's nothing stopping you from doing it. Your legs and arms are fully mobile, like a human, so there's no reason a pony can't mount a horse, physically. They have knees they can drive with like a human does, and they can hold the reigns in folded fetlocks without much issue if they want to. The one thing they lack that a human has are fingers, and fingers are not needed to ride a horse.

Thomas BDecember 09, 2015 11:28 pm UTC

PURCHASER

David, that really only works with the paladin, there is still the cavalier which is a bigger problem. Sure, while one can argue there is nothing stopping or preventing a pony from riding a horse... it is still quite silly and laughable to consider. Such wouldn't fit in all campaigns or with all players, one could even argue ponies would generally find the idea of riding horse weird or uncomfortable since horse are in many ways so similar to them.

Allowing for alternate features for these classes would be of benefit, and probably even appreciated by many.

David SDecember 09, 2015 11:32 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

There are choices to be taken, and class archetypes, to trade in your mount if you want. This is a table issue, not a mechanical one. The mechanics work fine either way. If your table doesn't like a pony on a horse, don't be a pony on a horse. There is nothing in the game that forces you to be so.

Thiago Tomas MMay 12, 2014 5:37 pm UTC

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Pardon the bad English but is not my mother tongue.

After reading the book I realized q is a very good book, a book that certainly deserves to be on the list of fans, the affection with the editing. My only resalva with the book is the interior art, which is very jarring with the scenario that served as inspiration for the book.

Art imitates art Pathfinder, but deviates much from the simplest designs that comprise the MLP FiM. Maybe a different artist would have valued more the content. The case that best illustrates this is the map, which is very colorful and simple, without much added realism.

In the rule book is very well written, although I still believe that the lineage of unification is not a good design choice. I find it very hard to see Twilight and Candece with 20 levels of sorcerer, a model would be a more logical choice.

Still worth the purchase.

Joshua BMay 02, 2014 2:35 pm UTC

I think Savage Worlds and Fate versions are in order. Yes? No?

David SMay 02, 2014 2:37 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Curious notion. I would need to learn the systems myself before I could offer conversion rules.

JP CMay 26, 2014 11:28 am UTC

PURCHASER

You know what!? I think I would be VERY open to playing this using SW, Fate or even a BESM plug-in... Would be much simpler and faster than Pathfinder.

JP

David SJune 02, 2014 8:23 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Fate conversion underway.

David SJune 02, 2014 8:24 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

We are now working on a Fate conversion guide.

Joshua BFebruary 03, 2015 9:53 pm UTC

Make it Savage, and I'll definitely be interested.

David SFebruary 03, 2015 10:01 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Do they have a licensing offer for third party publishers?

Jacob RJune 21, 2015 6:19 am UTC

They do. You email them and start a dialog. Very good people at Pinnacle.

Kris SJuly 20, 2015 1:29 am UTC

PURCHASER

How is that coming along? I've just bought the book and found it's got some neat ideas worth playing, but I lean heavily toward rules-light gaming and the Pathfinder Society groups only allow canon races.

I put some thought into how a Fate conversion would work, after binging on most of the book. Some of the race-related powers seem like they should be aspects but most work as stunts.

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